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... them to the uttermost of your power , as the Lord Himself would have done them . St. John of the Cross . I step , I mount where He has led . Cardinal Newman . HOU art my God , my heart hath been inflamed 36 JANUARY 30 . SERVICE .
... them to the uttermost of your power , as the Lord Himself would have done them . St. John of the Cross . I step , I mount where He has led . Cardinal Newman . HOU art my God , my heart hath been inflamed 36 JANUARY 30 . SERVICE .
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... hath been inflamed : I am always with Thee : Thou art the God of my heart , and the God that is my portion for ever . Ps . 1xxii . 26 . We must be attentive to the voice of grace ; that is to say , we must obey the motives which faith ...
... hath been inflamed : I am always with Thee : Thou art the God of my heart , and the God that is my portion for ever . Ps . 1xxii . 26 . We must be attentive to the voice of grace ; that is to say , we must obey the motives which faith ...
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... My heart shall be Thy garden , come , my own , Into Thy garden , Thine be happy hours Among my fairest thoughts , my tallest flowers , From root to crowning petal Thine alone . Alice Meynell . SING ING ye to the Lord , for He hath 41.
... My heart shall be Thy garden , come , my own , Into Thy garden , Thine be happy hours Among my fairest thoughts , my tallest flowers , From root to crowning petal Thine alone . Alice Meynell . SING ING ye to the Lord , for He hath 41.
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... hath done great things . Isa . xii . 5 . To each day is sufficient its good and evil . This daily fulfilment of the will of God is the coming of His kingdom within us , and these together are our daily bread . Fénelon . What is that ...
... hath done great things . Isa . xii . 5 . To each day is sufficient its good and evil . This daily fulfilment of the will of God is the coming of His kingdom within us , and these together are our daily bread . Fénelon . What is that ...
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... hath been , what he is , and what he shall be . What he hath been , nothing ; what he is , a reasonable creature ; what he shall be , a guest of Paradise or of hell , of an eternal felicity or of an everlasting unhappiness . Behold what ...
... hath been , what he is , and what he shall be . What he hath been , nothing ; what he is , a reasonable creature ; what he shall be , a guest of Paradise or of hell , of an eternal felicity or of an everlasting unhappiness . Behold what ...
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Page 32 - I FLED Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes, I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat, — and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet:...
Page 418 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David ; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 59 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 50 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Page 363 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His...
Page 247 - Now crescent, who will come to all I am And overcome it; and in me there dwells No greatness, save it be some far-off touch Of greatness to know well I am not great : There is the man.
Page 382 - Such is; what is to be? The pulp so bitter, how shall taste the rind? I dimly guess what Time in mists confounds; Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds From the hid battlements of Eternity, Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then Round the half-glimpsed turrets slowly wash again...
Page 291 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 413 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 56 - Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, — one step enough for me.